9 Sep
2013
9 Sep
'13
11:38 p.m.
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
The risk of bricking it is negligible as long as you don't do anything stupid like remove the battery half way through. Charge it fully before you start and it's no big deal.
Thanks. It proceeded without any problems. My main concern (for future updates) is that I don't have a recovery strategy in the event of a failure. Unfortunately there's no "boot from an alternative medium, then re-install" procedure for phones and tablets.
I recommend not waiting, updates may have fixes for serious security problems.
That's what I had suspected. In this case, the baseband software was updated as well as parts of Android itself. The kernel version is still at 3.4.